Safety-pin.



No. 657,088. Patented Sept. 4, I900.

J. D. CUNOVER.

SAFETY PIN.

(Application filed Apr. 19, 1899.)

(No Model.)

A TTOHNEYS UNirnD STATES PATENT OFFICE JACOB-DEY CONOVER, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY.-

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,088, dated September 4, 1900.

Application filed April 1 9 1 89 9.

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB DEY GoNovER, of Middletown, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Safety- Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to safetypins, and has for its object to generally improve the construction, at the same time greatly lessening the cost.

To the above end the present invention consists of the improved safety-pin which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The present invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows the complete safety-pin, showing in full lines the open position and in dotted lines the closed position. Fig. 2 shows the body portion of the safety-pin prior to the application thereto of the shield and the combined guard and fulcrum. Fig. 3 shows a blank from which the guard and fulcrum is made, and Fig. 4 shows a detached view of the guard and fulcrum.

Similar letters of reference will be employed throughout the specification and drawings to designate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A shows the pin as a whole, which comprises a body part formed of spring-wire, which is bent substantially midway of its length, as shown at c, to form the legs or members b and a. To the end of the member I) is secured in any usual or convenient manner a shield B, which may be of any usual or preferred construction. The end of the member a is pointed, as usual in these devices.

In these devices it is usual to obtain the desired spring of the pointed member by forming the bend which unites the two members of the body portion of a series of parallel coils which form an eye at the end, as is familiar to those persons acquainted with this art. Such a construction is found very 0bj ectionable, for the reason that the fabric into which the pin is placed is constantly catching in the coils, rendering the pins difficult to extract and oftentimes greatly damaging the v fabric. In my improved pin there is but a single bend, so formed as to cause the two members to stand at an angle to each other,

Serial No. 713,560. (No model.)

as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and in order to stiffen the body portion at this point and form a fulcrum which will relieve the bend a from all torsional strain incident to the use of the device and transfer the point of spring action from the bend a to a point in advance of such bend there is provided a combined guard and fulcrum O, which is formed of a suitably-shaped blank of sheet metal, which is doubled upon itself and swaged upon the bent end of the body portion, While the members a and b are held at an angle to each other, as shown in the drawings, the said guard and fulcru m extending entirely around the bend a and forward to the points cl and also extending across the space between the members a and b. The above arrangement is such that the fulcrum 0 causes the members to normally extend at an angle to each other, and thus in order to engage the pointed end of the member a with the shield B it must be bent inwardly considerably, such bending taking place in advance of the fulcrum, and thus relieving the bend c from strain.

By making a single bend only instead of a coil or eye, as is usually done, I save considerable stock, and thus lessen the cost of production. At the same time I produce a pin which will lie closely to the fabric in which it is placed. The combined guard and fulcrum also acts to hold the members of the pin in alinement with each other and prevent any lateral displacement.

Having described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to protect by 'Letters Patent of the United States- A safety-pin embodying a body portion formed of spring-wire bent upon itself to form diverging or angularly-disposed members, a shieldsecured to one member, the end of the opposite member being pointed, and a combined sheet-metal guard and fulcrum swaged upon and embracing the entire bent portion, extending forward along the members and across the space between the members, and acting to normally maintain the members in their angular relation to each other substantially as described.

Signed by me at New York city, New York, this 17th day of April, 1899.

JACOB DEY OONOVER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE A. DAWUS, GEO. P. BROOK. 

